BYOD Contracts with Work from Home Options

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term BYOD in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BYOD over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 457 596
Rank change year-on-year +119 +139 -132
Contract jobs citing BYOD 8 15 27
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.052% 0.058% 0.061%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.18% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 25
10th Percentile £423 £375 £304
25th Percentile £513 £394 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% +7.84%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £631
90th Percentile £588 - £750
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £14.48 £17.72 -
% change year-on-year -18.27% - -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

BYOD is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,362 8,137 13,908
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.55% 31.47% 31.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,943 5,726 9,922
10th Percentile £325 £363 £358
25th Percentile £431 £454 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £644
90th Percentile £800 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 151 228
10th Percentile £15.43 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £31.38 £20.56
Median hourly rate £50.50 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +29.21% +28.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.08
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.97% -18.24% +3.19%

BYOD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing BYOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BYOD trend for jobs with a WFH option

BYOD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BYOD.

BYOD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

BYOD
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BYOD over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

BYOD daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BYOD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) MPLS
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Power Query
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Network Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Logistics
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) SDLC
2 2 (25.00%) Service Management
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Quantitative Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) UEBA
3 1 (12.50%) Usability Testing
3 1 (12.50%) User Research
3 1 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet